sea-mats

Updated: May 29, 2025

Here are Flustrae, or sea-mats. Look at it through the field-glass; for it is truly wonderful. Each polype cell is edged with whip-like spines, and on the back of some of them is what is it, but a live vulture's head, snapping and snapping what for?

Charles Kingsley - Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore